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Home film of San Francisco from 1958

submitted by fuzzyundies

1 decade 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago

From the poster on vimeo: "A reel labeled 'Alameda 1958' happened to feature quite a few urban scenes set in San Francisco."

13 Comments

Good choice of music, too.

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 6:35pm PDT - promote requested by Stingray.

Moving this video to fuzzyundies's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Stingray.

Song is Alone in Kyoto by Air. See Amazon link.

Wow. Fantastic.

FlowersInHisHair

Wonderful. I love the quality of the light on this old film stock, and the carefree attitude of the folks at the beginning of the movie. The music kinda makes me think of SimCity (no bad thing). Ah, San Francisco is one of my favourite places in the whole world. Great post.

I'm amazed at how nicely everyone is dressed.

justathinker says...

That was awesome.

It's amazing how film footage from 100 years ago looks better than 99.9% of modern video footage. How far we've come!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'found, color film, cable car, chinatown, golden gate, lombard' to 'found, color film, cable car, chinatown, golden gate, lombard, alone in kyoto, air' - edited by calvados

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